Talent Acquisition Partner, Apprenticeships - UK&I

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Manchester, North West, United Kingdom

Johnson Controls

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Full Job Description

Overview:

Our Talent Acquisition Center of Expertise is responsible for recruiting across all business units and corporate functions in EMEA. The team works as partners and experts supporting our business and HR team in hiring the best talent, to enable our continued growth and success. We’re a forward-thinking team, leveraging strong relationships and data. We are positioned to make a dramatic impact on the culture at Johnson Controls by focusing on delivering high quality hires in an appropriate time frame.

Role Description:

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Apprentices Partner with a genuine interest and proven past success in early careers recruitment.

You will report to one of the Talent Acquisition Leads in UKI. You will work closely with local HR teams, the Apprenticeship Program Manager, and all business lines senior stakeholders in the UK&I region, to support them with the delivery of the Apprentices TA recruitment strategy.

You will be accountable for the delivery of end to end recruitment. As such, it is essential that you have experience in working in a fast-paced, ever-changing, driven environment and have the ability to execute and develop tactical sourcing strategies aimed at generating candidate flow that meets diversity and our overall recruiting goals.

Objective & Profile:

1. Meet JCI’s apprentice talent goals and strategic initiatives and objectives, including diversity strategies.
2. Strengthen recruiting practices by effectively collaborating with key stakeholders across the business and third-party vendors.
3. Build JCI’s employment brand at target educational institutes (schools, colleges, universities, etc.) by engaging with students, faculty, and career service centers and serve as a trusted partner.
4. Coordinate and support all attraction and selection activities. Run efficient administration for business stakeholders’ engagements, campus visits, career fairs, and selection activities such as screening, interviews, selection days, offers, etc. through WD.
5. Promote Apprentices Talent objectives by writing, editing, and distributing Apprentices internal and external communications, marketing material, and collateral.
6. Partner closely with the business and functions to identify talent and recruitment needs and requirements. Translate these requirements into recommendations and work processes as part of the Apprentices Talent strategy.
7. Track market information and competitor intelligence on the Apprentices Talent market in terms of recruitment trends, compensation, and talent attraction, selection, development, and retention best practices.
8. Build strong client relationships and be a key point of contact, as a knowledgeable and valuable resource on early career talent.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand functional and business needs for Apprentices recruitment and related programmes.
2. Manage marketing/communications project(s) as assigned from planning to implementation to evaluation.
3. Partner with Total Rewards to research and evaluate competitive salaries on the market.
4. Build relationships with functions and businesses; look for new business areas to introduce Apprentices talent.
5. Build relationships with target educational institutes, external partners, and organisations related to Apprentices talent. Stay informed regarding the talent market and best practices through these relationships.
6. Manage and support actively the talent sourcing and selection process.
7. Coordinate with third-party vendors to ensure consistency and high-quality performance and service.
8. Contribute content and creative ideas for Apprentices talent branding and communications (e.g., collateral, presentations, online (website, social media), adverts, updates, new programmes, etc.)
9. Develop key metrics and report on them to management monthly.
10. Evaluate and review all processes and programmes on an ongoing basis.
11. Represent JCI with the highest professional standards.

About You:

You are an agile communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills, understand your audience, and can quickly adapt to meet the needs of differing audiences. You believe the best work is done in teams, and you collaborate with peers to support their activities and accomplish organization-level goals. You hold peers accountable for commitments, but demonstrate loyalty to the team through competent delivery and approachability. You’re analytical, considering data from multiple sources & relationships, can identify links between dissimilar data sets, and draw conclusions & assumptions that will best benefit the business.

Experience/Qualifications:

1. Ideal experience in leading and executing efficient and effective Apprentices talent recruiting programmes. Broader experience in human resources is desirable.
2. Solid experience in Apprentices attraction and selection methodologies, working to a strategy.
3. Ability to screen campus talent and provide recommendations for hiring teams.
4. Demonstrated knowledge in Apprentices branding/marketing and communications.
5. Strong work ethic; does not cut corners and follows through on commitments and can work independently.
6. Develops plans and schedules in an efficient, productive manner with remarkable attention to detail. Does not let important details slip through the cracks or derail a project.
7. Strong analytical skills; ability to structure and process data and draw insightful conclusions.
8. Good judgment and discretion.
9. Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and presentation skills.

We offer an exciting and challenging position with great personal freedom and professional responsibility. Joining us you will become part of a leading global multi-industrial corporation defined by its stimulating work environment and job satisfaction. In addition, we offer outstanding career development opportunities which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We embrace diversity, reward hard work, and have a collective passion to make an impact. In an environment that is constantly evolving, we set the foundation for you to grow and create a career that is as unique as you are.